Child pornography = Child Molester

Our neighbor at the end of the cul de sac was arrested for possession of thousands of images of children engaged in sexually explicit acts. The whole neighborhood is horrified. I told my husband that it was terrifying to know we lived that close to a child molester and his response was that we don't know that he's ever physically molested a child. I think if your getting off and collecting kids pictures that in itself is a form of child molestation especially given the knowledge that kids in these images are often the victims of horrific abuse.

My PSA is that this sick guy was a software engineer at Qualcomm and his wife is a neurosurgeon. They were never the kind of people I suspected of this. That was until the FBI showed up and raided his house. You can never tell who is Chester the Molester is.

My debate question is - does looking at child pornography make you a child molester?

His wife is due with a baby any day now. They have a three year old son. The newspaper articles say that the FBI did their first raid of their house in February and he was terminated from his job at Qualcomm because his home computer was remotely linked to their mainframe when he was downloading these images.

Nobody knew about the raid or him getting fired unti he was arrested on Monday and he was all over the news yesterday.

I don't know what to think. I saw them together three weeks ago at a neighborhood block party. She had to have known about the first raid and his firing... It's overwhelming to think she knew and stayed with him and their young son in the house. She very obviously has the means to get along on her own. I'm just worried that the guy makes bail and is back in the house 1/2 block away from my children.

If he has a sick fetish, she may have known, but he may have never acted out on it. It's possible. That doesn't mean he could be trusted though. But maybe she stayed with him bc she thought she could help him. some wives with those.men feel they can change them....or.she was in denial.

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If the "other guy" wins, I'm volunteering as a tribute in the next Hunger Games. ~my funny neighbor~

OMFG, that makes this mess so much worse. If she knew and stayed with him, then she's either crazy or in total denial. I can't imagine how I would feel if shit like that was found on our computer, but there's no way in hell DH would be around the kids.

If he makes bail there will likely be restrictions on his activities wrt contact with children, so you could call police on him for bail jumping if you see him doing anything he shouldn't. I don't find the technical definition of "molester" as all that important. He is apparantly a pedophile and participated in sex crimes against children given that all of those kids in the pictures were victimized by being photographed in this way. I certainly wouldn't trust him not to directly assault a child, he is a freak and I would certainly keep far away from him.

I hope they printed her name and occupation in the paper. I would not want to use a healthcare provider that enables/condones a child molester. If she knew about it and let him stay that makes her just as sick. I would feel very unsafe bringing my children into her office for appointments.

OP, hopefully he's locked up for a long time and she loses the house so they are forced to move. Or she is so humiliated she moves.. Ugh.